'All creatures great and small'

Our challenge at http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/ this week is 'all creatures great and small'. That phrase takes me straight back to my primary school days at a Church of England school where we sang our hearts out on that phrase at least once a week.

My card focusses on small creatures and is an image taken from the Floral Extravaganza CD by Ooh-la-la-creations - a lovely dreamy image. I don't really think I've done the image justice as I'm so busy unpacking, rushing to the toilet (yes tummy is still not good) and generally trying to catch up with stuff, but am showing it anyway.

A gift for a friend...

The challenge this week at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ was to make a gift for a friend. A little while back I bought some vellum envelopes containing rose petals to put in the bath - I had the idea that I could remove the shop label and make one of my own to personalise the gift.

Like lots of thing I didn't get round to doing it till now. Love the way 'challenges' spur you on to do things that you intended to but never got round to. I used a cute Penny Black stamp for the central image and some lovely clear border stamps to create the borders. All the images were coloured using water colour pencils. I added some orange stickles to the flower centres and the bee. The tag is stamped using a Studio G stamp.

Dutch Dare - stamp something...

The challenge this week on the new challenge site at http://www.dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/ is to stamp something and it has to be the main image on your card.

On my card the main image is the vintage car which was stamped on to vellum using a mixed colour Brilliance ink pad and then attached with brads to gold card and matted and layed on to the main background paper. This is a vintage paper that came in a set from QVC a little while back. I've added a tag and a 'Happy Birthday' peel off to finish the card.

My card also fits our challenge at Ooh-la-la-Creations which is 'Remember when...' - do join in with this if you have chance. We would love to see your creations.